Viol Forms of the Renaissance
from "Regola Rubertina"
(Venice, 1542-3) by Sylvestro Ganassi

Ganassi: Regola Rubertina, 1542-43


Two forms of viols from Sylvestro Ganassi: Rogola Rubertina, Venice, 1542/3
will be shown soon...!


Paolo Veronese: The Wedding at Cana

Paolo Veronese: Wedding at Cana
(The painter himself on the viol; behind him, the painter Tintoretto, playing the other viol)


Paolo Veronese: the Wedding at Cana

Paolo Veronese: Wedding at Cana
(The painter, Tiziano is playing on the violone, the painter Jacopo Bassano on the violin!)



Ganassi: Regola Rubertina (wood cut)
Wood-cut from Ganassi's Regola Rubertina,
showing a five-string vio
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treble viola da gamba in one of the Ganassi-shapes

Treble viola da gamba in Ganassi-form, probably Italy or Spain
provisional photo of unrestored instrument


updated 21.11.2007